September 2nd

EVENTS

44 BC – Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
44 BC – The first of Cicero’s Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
31 BC – Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian’s forces defeat those under Mark Antony andCleopatra off the western coast of Greece.
911 – Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
1192 – Ottoman Sultan Saladin & King Richard the Lion-hearted of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade
1519 – 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
1537 – King Christian III publishes “Ordinance on the Danish Church”
1644 – , Cornwall: Robert Devereux’s infantry surrenders
1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 – Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
1686 – Habsburg armies take Buda from Turks
1732 – Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
First Sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin

1743 – Britain/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
1752 – Last Julian calendar day in Britain and British colonies (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1789 – US Treasury Department established by Congress
1792 – September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1796 – Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
1806 – A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1839 – Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam
1856 – Tianjing’s struggle Incident in Nanjing, China.
1859 – Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1864 – Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during US Civil War
1867 – 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth
1870 – Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
1882 – 2nd U.S. Men’s National Championship: Richard Sears beats Clarence M. Clark (6-1, 6-4, 6-0)
1885 – In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1894 – -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
1894 – Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
1897 – “McCal” magazine first published
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman

1898 – Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1898 – Machine gun 1st used in battle
1900 – Telegraph use between Germany & US begins
1900 – A large demonstration by Nationalists in Dublin’s Phoenix Park demand that Ireland be free of British rule
1901 – VP Theodore Roosevelt advises “Speak softly & carry a big stick”
1902 – “A Trip To The Moon”, the first science fiction film, released
1908 – Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 – King Edward VII signs South Africa Act
1911 – Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
1913 – Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
1914 – -3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
1914 – The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Burns

1917 – Deutsche Vaterlands Partei formed by admiral Tirpitz
1919 – Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1919 – Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation
1919 – National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
1920 – W Somerset Maugham’s “East of Suez” premieres in London
1922 – President Ebert declares “Deutschland uber alas” as German national anthem
1924 – 44th US Men’s Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (6-1 9-7 6-2)
1924 – Rudolf Friml’s “Rose Marie” opens to rave reviews in NYC
1924 – 44th U.S. Men’s National Championship: Bill Tilden beats Bill Johnston (6-1, 9-7, 6-2)
1926 – Italy signs treaty with Yemen
1927 – Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
Baseball Player Lou Gehrig

1929 – Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
1929 – WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
1930 – 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1935 – A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
1936 – 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1937 – US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
1940 – 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa
1940 – Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
1941 – Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
1942 – German troops enter Stalingrad
1944 – Belgium’s Emissie bank closes
1944 – During WW II, George H W Bush ejects from a burning plane
1944 – Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank

1944 – US leaders meet in Belgium
1945 – 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (3-6 8-6 6-4)
1945 – Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
1945 – V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)
1946 – Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
1946 – Nehru forms government in India
1949 – Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
1951 – Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
1952 – Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1954 – Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1954 – WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 – KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 – Collapse of a rail bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1956 – Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
Vietnamese Communist Revolutionary Ho Chi Minh

1956 – Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
1956 – 7th Formula One WDC: Juan Manuel Fangio wins by three points
1957 – 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
1957 – Milwaukee Braves’ Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
1957 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 – Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 – Hendrik Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa
1958 – KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 – Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
1958 – National Defense Education Act was signed
1958 – U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
1959 – US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1960 – Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
1960 – William Walton’s 2nd Symphony, premieres
1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1962 – Stan Musial’s 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 – Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
1963 – CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1963 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
1964 – Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
1964 – Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
1965 – Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
1965 – Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright

1966 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies’ World Series of Golf
1967 – KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 – The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
1968 – Jerry Lewis’ 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1969 – NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
1969 – Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1970 – 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
1971 – Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
1971 – Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches
1971 – NY’s Electric Circus Club goes out of business
Tennis Legend Chris Evert

1971 – There are further Irish Republican Army bombs set off across the region, including one in Belfast which wrecked the headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party
1972 – Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
1972 – Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
1972 – Rod Stewart’s 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)
1972 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 – The headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in Belfast is severely damaged by an IRA bomb
1973 – Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
1973 – Netherlands wins hockey world’s championship
1973 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1974 – Jerry Lewis’ 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
38th US President Gerald Ford

1974 – US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1978 – Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
1978 – John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
1978 – Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
1979 – “I Remember Mama” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1979 – 79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O’Meara
1980 – John Arlott commentates on his last game, England v Australia at Lord’s
1981 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 – Rolling Stone Keith Richard’s house burns down
1983 – Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
1984 – “Zorba” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
1985 – Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1985 – Jerry Lewis’ 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
1986 – Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
Businessman & T.V. Personality Donald Trump

1987 – Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1987 – Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
1987 – Philips introduces CD-video
1987 – Trial begins in Moscow for West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Finland to Moscow, USSR
1988 – Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
1989 – Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1990 – “Grapes of Wrath” closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
1990 – Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF
1991 – Jerry Lewis’ 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
1991 – Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1991 – US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
1992 – Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die
1992 – US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
LPGA Golfer Pat Bradley

1993 – 10th MTV Video Music Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
1993 – Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed
1993 – Day of Peace in South Africa
1994 – Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
1995 – Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1995 – Southern California begins using new area code 562
1996 – Jerry Lewis’ 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
1996 – Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1996 – Soyuz TM-24, lands
1996 – A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM
1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
Comedian Jerry Lewis

1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 – The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
2007 – 11th World Championships in Athletics close at Osaka, Japan
2012 – A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt
2012 – 15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine

BIRTHDAYS

1243 – Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)
1548 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
1661 – Georg Bohm, German organist/composer
1675 – William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
1716 – Johann Trier, composer
1731 – Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Olint und Sophronia)
1750 – Pehr Frigel, composer
1753 – Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810)
1763 – Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author
1778 – Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician
1778 – Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846)
1798 – Thomas Holliday Hicks, (Union Gov) (d. 1865)
1805 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
1814 – Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian
1830 – William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
1837 – James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1925)
1838 – Liliuokalani, [Lydia Paki], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
1839 – Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
1840 – Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)
1847 – Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
1850 – Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
1850 – Eugene Field, author/journalist (Little Boy Blue)
1850 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
1852 – Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
1854 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
1856 – Yang Hsiu-ch’ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion
1857 – Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1862 – Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
1866 – Hiram Johnson, (Gov-Progressive-Cal)
1870 – Marie Ault, [Mary Cragg], Wigan England
1870 – Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (d. 1947)
Nobel Laureate Chemist Frederick Soddy (1877)

1877 – Frederick Soddy, Eastbourne, England, chemist, Nobel laureate, (d. 1956)
1878 – Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr
1879 – An Jung-geun, Korean nationalist and assassin of Itō Hirobumi (d. 1910)
1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, “The Red Archduchess” (d. 1963)
1884 – Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, educator, taught reading through phonetics
1892 – Felix Wolfes, composer
1894 – Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist/writer (Hotel Savoy)
1899 – Hans Nielsen, Denmark, lightweight and featherweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1901 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
1901 – Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977)
1904 – Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], actress (Follow the Leader), born in NYC, New York
1908 – Barbara Jo Allen, actress (Ice Capades Revue, Rosie the Riveter), born in NYC, New York
1910 – Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher
1911 – Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin)
1911 – Rene Amengual, composer
1911 – Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
1912 – Johan Daisne, [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (magic realism)
1912 – Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)
1913 – Bill Shankly, English Football Manager (d. 1981)
1914 – Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist
1914 – Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1915 – Dai-Keong Lee, composer
1915 – Hans Joachim Koellreutter, composer
1915 – Meinhardt Raabe, actor, notable as Munchkin Coroner on The Wizard of Oz
1915 – Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
1916 – Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, American tennis player (141 US tennis titles), born in LA, CA, (d. 2014)
1916 – Penny Santon, Greenwich Village NY, actress (Roll Out, Matt Houston)
1917 – Cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide)
1917 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (developed bossa nova)
1918 – Allen Drury, author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize)
1918 – Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
1919 – Gideon William Waldrop, composer
1919 – Marge Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), born in Los Angeles, California
1923 – Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1924 – Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
1925 – Ronnie Stevens, actor (Rodney-Dick & Duchess), born in London, England
1925 – Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1927 – Francis Matthews, British actor (On the Bowery, Paul Temple)
1927 – Leonard Katzman, TV producer
1927 – Trudi Jochum-Beiser, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927 – Tzvi Avni, composer
1928 – Miloslav Istvan, composer
1928 – Peter Mansfield, writer
1929 – Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
1930 – Andrey Pavlovich Petrov, composer
1931 – Alan K Simpson, minority whip (Sen-R-WY, 1979- )
1931 – Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host
1933 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor, (d. 2012)
1934 – Michael Sahl, composer
1934 – Hilla Becher (née Wobeser), Potsdam Germany, German artist, worked collaboratively with Bernd Becher her husband
1935 – Jim Moody, (Rep-D-WI, 1983- )
1936 – David Leonard Blake, composer
1936 – Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
1936 – Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
1937 – Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics (1984)/baseball commissioner
1937 – Derek Fowlds, British actor
1938 – Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster
1939 – Bobby Purify, rocker
1939 – Robert Lee Dickey, US singer (I’m your puppet)
1939 – Sam Gooden, Chattanooga Tenn, rock vocalist (Impressions-Gypsy Woman)
1940 – Beverly Sanders, Hollywood California, actress (Lotsa Luck, CPO Sharkey)
1940 – Jimmy Clanton, Baton Rogue, La, rock vocalist (Just a Dream)
1940 – Mike Pyne, jazz Pianist
1941 – Tommy Aycock, Edinburg TX, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas Senior-5th)
1943 – Glenn Sather, NHL coach (Edmonton Oiler)
1943 – Joe Simon, US singer (Power of Love)
1943 – Rosalind Ashford, rock vocalist (Martha Reeve & Vandellas), born in Detroit, Michigan
1944 – Claude Nicollier, Vevey Switzerland, astronaut (STS 61-K, 46, 61, 75)
1946 – Luis Avalos, Havana Cuba, actor (Condo, E/R, I Had 3 Wives)
1946 – Marty Grebb, rocker (Buckinghams), born in Chicago, Illinois
1946 – Billy Preston, American soul musician/singer and pianist, 5th Beatle (David Brenner Show), born in Houston, Texas
1947 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan), (d. 2013)
1948 – Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, teacher/astronaut (STS 25)
1948 – Terry Bradshaw, NFL QB (Pittsburgh Steelers)/announcer (CBS, FOX)
1949 – Albert West[laken], Dutch singer (Dumb Willie)
1950 – Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
1950 – Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster)
1950 – Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
1951 – Mark Harmon, Burbank California, actor (Dr Caldwell-St Elsewhere)
1951 – Michael Gray, actor (Ronnie-Brian Keith Show), born in Chicago, Illinois
1951 – Mike Kaminsky, rocker
1951 – Jim DeMint, American politician
1952 – Earl Pomeroy, (Rep-D-North Dakota)
Tennis Legend Jimmy Connors (1952)

1952 – [James] Jimmy Connors, St. Louis Illinois, US tennis champion (US Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82)
1953 – Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz Germany, astronaut
1953 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and a war hero (d. 2001)
1953 – John Zorn, American musician
1955 – Linda Purl, Greenwich Ct, actress (Gloria-Happy Days, Matlock)
1956 – Mario Tremblay, Canadian hockey player and coach
1956 – Angelo Fusco, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1957 – Steve Porcaro, LA Cal, rock keyboards/vocalist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1957 – Tony Alva, American skateboarder
1958 – Marlene Janssen, Rock Island Ill, playmate (Nov, 1982)
1959 – Esther Oosterbeek, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
1959 – Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
1960 – Eric Dickerson, Texas, NFL halfback (LA Rams, Colts/2,105 yds in 1984)
1960 – Rex Hudler, Tempe AZ, outfielder (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1960 – Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
1960 – John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
1961 – Jeff Russell, Cincinnatti OH, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 – Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
1962 – Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director
1962 – Eugenio Derbez, Mexican comedian and actor
1962 – Jon Berkeley, author and illustrator
1963 – Sam Mitchell, NBA forward (Minn Timberwolves)
1964 – Keanu Reeves, Beirut, actor (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Speed)
1965 – Doug Linton, Santa Ana CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Lennox Lewis(1965)

1965 – Lennox Lewis, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988, WBC boxing champ), born in London, England
1965 – Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker
1966 – Salma Hayek, Veracruz, Mexico, actress (Desparado)
1966 – Dino Cazares, American musician
1966 – Olivier Panis, French race car driver
1966 – Tuc Watkins, American actor
1967 – Andreas Möller, German footballer
1968 – Ricardo de Jongh, soccer player (Dordrecht ’90)
1968 – Cynthia Watros, American actress
1969 – Mark Brettschneider, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Jason-One Life to Live)
1969 – Russell Freeman, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1969 – Shani Waugh, Bunbury Aust, LPGA golfer (Aust sub-jr champ-1986, 87)
1969 – Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey, American singer
Actress Salma Hayek(1966)

1969 – Chris Kuzneski, American bestselling author
1969 – Stephen Peall, Zimbabwean cricketer
1971 – Rich Aurilia, Brooklyn NY, infielder (SF Giants)
1971 – Shauna Sand, actress (Renegade), born in San Diego, California
1971 – Tommy Maddox, NFL quarterback (NY Giants)
1971 – Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
1971 – Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
1971 – Tom Steels, Belgian cyclist
1972 – James Willis, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 – Katarina Studenikova, Bratislava Slovak Rep, tennis star
1973 – Matthew Dunn, Leeton NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 – Jason Blake, American hockey player
1974 – Jason Lawson, NBA center (Orlando Magic)
1974 – Karina Wieland, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 – Daniel Southworth, American actor and stunt performer
1976 – Phil Lipscomb, American musician (Taproot)
1976 – Erin Hershey, American actress.
1977 – Ramiro Muñoz, Colombian musician
1977 – Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
1979 – Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
1980 – Ashley Witmer, Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA (1997)
1980 – Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese racing driver
1980 – Dany Sabourin, French Canadian Goaltender in the National Hockey League
1981 – Katie Teft, Grand Rapids Mich, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 – Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian film director/producer
1981 – Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
1981 – Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
1982 – Joey Barton, English footballer
1982 – Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
1982 – Jason Hammel, American baseball player
1983 – Mark Foster, English rugby player
1984 – Jack Peñate, English/Spanish singer
1987 – Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
1988 – Ishant Sharma, Indian Cricketer
1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
1989 – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (d. 2008)
1990 – Marcus Ericsson, Swedish Racing Driver

WEDDINGS

1824 – US Navy flag officer David Farragut (23) weds Susan Caroline Marchant
1908 – Naval officer Robert Scott (40) weds sculptress Kathleen Bruce (30) at the Chapel Royal in London, England
1922 – “Gone With The Wind” author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw
1978 – George Harrison marries Olivia
1978 – Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
1978 – Singer Gloria Estefan (21) weds musician and producer Emilio Estefan (25)
1989 – NBA basketball star Michael Jordan (26) weds Juanita Vanoy (30) at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
Actor Sam Neill (1989)

1989 – Actor Sam Neill (41) weds actress Noriko Watanabe (24)
1995 – Actor Charlie Sheen (30) weds model Donna Peele (25) in Malibu, California
2000 – “The Backstreet Boys” lead vocalist Brian Littrell (25) weds actress Leighanne Wallace (31) at Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta, Georgia
2005 – “Single White Female” actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (43) weds director and writer Noah Baumbach (36) in Los Angeles
2006 – Former “EastEnders” actress Hannah Waterman (31) weds actor Ricky Groves (38) at a country church in Inwardleigh, England
2006 – “Color Me Badd” singer Sam Watters (36) weds American Idol first season finalist Tamyra Gray (27) on a cliff on the island of Capri
2006 – “7th Heaven” actor Jeremy London (33) weds actress Melissa Cunningham at Hidden Chateau and Garden in West Hills, California
Actor Charlie Sheen (1995)

2006 – “Rodney” actress Jennifer Aspen (32) weds actor David O’Donnell in Los Angeles

DIVORCES

1960 – Actress Tammy Grimes (26) divorces actor Christopher Plummer (30) after 4 years of marriage

DEATHS

490 BC – Pheidippides, Greek hero and inspiration for the modern marathon
421 – Flavius Constantine III, Emperor of Western Roman Empire, dies at about 51
1031 – Saint Emeric of Hungary
1274 – Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
1384 – Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), dies
1397 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer
1418 – Jan III Chalon, prince of Orange/gov of Burgundy, dies
1540 – Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
1566 – Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter, dies at 37
1606 – Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58
1645 – lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded
1680 – Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
1688 – Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
1690 – Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
1698 – Justus Vingboons, Architect, buried
1715 – Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer, dies at 87
1764 – Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
1765 – Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
1768 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
Hero of Athens Pheidippides(490 BC)

1779 – Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66
1790 – Johann N von Hontheim, German religious historian/Bishop, dies
1813 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
1820 – Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
1832 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
1862 – Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40
1870 – Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer, dies at 48
1872 – Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
1877 – Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
1891 – Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer, dies at 76
1896 – Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
1898 – Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire
1898 – Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
1905 – Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79
1906 – Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies
1910 – Henri “le Douanier” Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies
1915 – August Stramm, writer, dies at 41
1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer (b. 1855)
1934 – Ruggiero de Rudolpho “Russ” Columbo, US singer/violist, dies at 26
1934 – Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
1934 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black (b. 1860)
1937 – Esther de Farmer-of Rich, actress (Kniertje-On hope of blessing), dies
1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, baron/revivor of Olympics, dies at 74
1942 – Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
1944 – George W Norris, US senator (lame duck-amendement), dies
1944 – Bella Rosenfeld, subject of many of Marc Chagall paintings (b. 1895)
1948 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1953 – Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
1955 – Rudolf Kattnigg, composer, dies at 60
1957 – William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer, dies at 90
1961 – Greet Koeman, Dutch singer, dies at 54
1962 – William Wilkerson, Founder of the Hollywood Reporter, The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and nightclubs such as Ciro’s (b. 1890)
1964 – Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/pres (1951-58), dies at 70
1964 – Morris Ankrum, actor (Kronos, Earth vs Flying Saucers), dies at 67
1964 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1964 – Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
1965 – Johannes Bobrowski, writer, dies at 48
1968 – Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82
1969 – Harry Williams Millard, producer, dies of cancer at 41
1970 – Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64
1970 – Cornelis L “Kees” van Baaren, Dutch composer (Hollow Men), dies at 63
Writer and Academic J. R. R. Tolkien (1973)

1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British author (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings), dies of an ulcer at 81
1973 – Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
1979 – Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies at 90
1979 – Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (b. 1903)
1980 – William Douglas Denny, composer, dies at 70
1982 – Jay Novello, actor (Harum Scarum, Rebel Breed), dies of cancer at 78
1982 – Tom Baker, US actor, dies of a drug overdose in New York at 42
1984 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
1985 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star, dies at 64
1985 – Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler
1989 – A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51
1991 – Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies
1991 – Concetto Lo Bello, Italian intl soccer judge, dies
1992 – Barbara McClintock, US, geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90
1992 – Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies
1993 – Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80
1993 – John/Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66
1994 – Detlef Macha, German DR cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35
1994 – Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82
1994 – Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies
1994 – Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
1994 – Roy Castle, actor (Dr Who & the Daleks), dies of lung Cancer at 62
1995 – Vaclav Neummann, conductor, dies at 74
1996 – Ljuba Welitsch, opera singer, dies at 83
1996 – Cyril Reuben, violinist, dies at 69
1996 – Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86
1996 – Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West, dies at 71
1996 – Otto Luening, composer, dies at 96
1996 – Paddy Clift, cricketer (Rhod & Leicester all-rounder 1970-88), dies
1997 – Rudolf Bing, opera manager (NY Met Opera), dies at 95
1997 – Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man’s Search for Meaning), dies at 92
1998 – Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
1998 – Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
2000 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
2000 – Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907)
2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
2001 – Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
2002 – Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
2004 – Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
2004 – Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
Actor Bob Denver (2005)

2005 – Bob Denver, American actor (Gilligan’s Island), dies of complications from treatment for cancer at 70
2006 – Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman, dies of cancer at 75
2006 – Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
2007 – Max McNab, National Hockey League executive (b. 1924)
2007 – Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
2007 – Rajae Belmlih, Morrocan singer (b. 1962 in Casablanca)
2008 – Bill Meléndez, American character animator (b. 1916)
2009 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1949)
2011 – Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean character animator, Chile (b. 1966)
2011 – Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (b. 1979)
2013 – Frederik Pohl, American science fiction author, dies at 93
2013 – Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician, dies at 78

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1969 First ATM opens for business

• American Revolution

• 1789 Congress founds U.S. Treasury

• Automotive

• 1959 Ford introduces the compact, fuel-efficient Falcon

• Civil War

• 1862 McClellan is restored to full command

• Cold War

• 1987 Trial of Mathias Rust begins

• Crime

• 1998 A UN court hands down the first international conviction for genocide

• Disaster

• 1923 Great Tokyo Fire continues to blaze

• General Interest

• 31 B.C. The Battle of Actium
• 1666 Great Fire of London begins
• 1945 Japan surrenders
• 1945 Vietnam independence proclaimed

• Hollywood

• 1973 Lord of the Rings creator Tolkien dies

• Literary

• 1946 The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O’Neill, opens on Broadway

• Music

• 1996 Michael Jackson earns his 12th and final solo #1 with “You Are Not Alone”

• Old West

• 1885 Whites massacre Chinese in Wyoming Territory

• Presidential

• 1944 Navy aviator George H.W. Bush and his squadron attacked

• Sports

• 1991 Connors celebrates birthday with win at U.S. Open
• 2013 Diana Nyad, 64, makes record swim from Cuba to Florida

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Ho Chi Minh dies
• 1972 47th North Vietnamese MiG shot down

• World War I

• 1917 Fatherland Party formally launched in Germany

• World War II

• 1945 Allies celebrate V-J Day